A novel in which sixteen-year-old Mari confronts a contemporary version of the Tokyo Trial and follows the spiritual history of postwar Japan. By layering personal memory, family, occupation, and society after the bubble era, it asks whether Japan's postwar period ever truly ended.

Even if war is forgotten, the postwar period does not end.

A historical study that reexamines kawaramono and hinin, marginalized groups in medieval Japan, through documents and fieldwork. It clarifies their social roles and rereads Toyotomi Hideyoshi's origins and rise to power from the perspective of status discrimination.

A rereading of discriminatory history through the work of those placed at the margins.

An encyclopedia of insect-eating cultures around the world, covering ingredients, gathering, cooking, distribution, cultural background, climate, and ecology. Rather than treating the subject as mere curiosity, it systematizes the food knowledge humans have formed with their environments.

A record of insect-eating as both culture and ecology.

A collected edition that selects and systematizes Sosuke Mita's sociological thought, revising major works and adding explanatory notes. Through writings on contemporary society, modern Japan's mental structure, and Kenji Miyazawa, it surveys a major current in postwar Japanese sociology and thought.

A definitive collected edition for rereading the core of Mita's sociology.

An autobiographical saga by Otohiko Kaga, continuing the family and historical narrative of The Eternal City. Through the life of Yuta Kogure and his family, it follows Japan from the early Showa period to the end of the century, tracing how war, the postwar years, earthquake disaster, and social events mark individual lives.

Through family memory, the novel depicts Japan from Showa to the end of the century.